What is Roundcube?

Roundcube is an open source, browser-based multilingual IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) client that features an application-like user interface. It provide MIME support, folder manipulation, address book, spell checking and message searching. Above all that, Roundcube comes with a very beautiful and modern interface to read and send e-mail messages from virtually anywhere.

Installing Bitnami Roundcube Stack

To install the Roundcube stack on your desktop computer or laptop using the native installers provided by Bitnami for the GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems, you will have to grab the file the corresponds to your computer’s hardware architecture (32-bit and 64-bit are supported), run it and follow the instruction provided on the screen.

Run Roundcube on the cloud

In addition to installing Roundcube on your computer using the Bitnami Roundcube Stack product, you can also deploy on the cloud using the pre-built cloud images offered by Bitnami for the Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 cloud hosting services.

Virtualize Roundcube or use the Docker container

Those of you who just want to use Roundcube on a virtual machine, can do so by downloading Bitnami’s VM image for the VirtualBox and VMware virtualization software, based on the latest stable (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Additionally, it is possible to deploy Roundcube as a Docker container (more details can be found on the project’s site).

The Bitnami Roundcube Module

Besides the Bitnami Roundcube Stack product reviewed here, Bitnami also offers a companion module for the Bitnami LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server, which helps you install Roundcube in a quick manner. The Bitnami Roundcube Module is available for download on Softpedia, free of charge.

Bitnami Roundcube Stack was reviewed by Marius Nestor, last updated on January 31st, 2015